Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 33, sentence 77
So then hunters were sent out to all cities, and one year had not gone by before from all the neighbouring parts all the Tsars and Tsarévichi, all the Kings and Korolévichi came together, as also the Tsar who had put his own daughter into the barrel and sent her out into the sea.
Who acts: Tsars · What happens: send out, not go, come together, put · To what, where: hunters, cities, neighbouring parts, own daughter, barrel, daughter
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tsars), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sent | advmod |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | aux:pass |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sent | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 cities | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 cities | det |
| 9 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gone | cc |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 year | nummod |
| 13 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 gone | advmod |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sent | parataxis |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 before | case |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 gone | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 parts | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 parts | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 parts | det |
| 22 | neighbouring | neighbouring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 parts | compound |
| 23 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gone | obl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Tsars | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tsars | det |
| 26 | Tsars | tsar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 came | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Tsarévichi | cc |
| 28 | Tsarévichi | Tsarévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tsars | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Kings | punct |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 Kings | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Kings | det |
| 32 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Tsars | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 Korolévichi | cc |
| 34 | Korolévichi | Korolévichi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Kings | conj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 parts | acl:relcl |
| 36 | together | together | ADV | _ | 35 came | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 put | punct |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 Tsar | case |
| 39 | also | also | ADV | _ | 41 Tsar | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Tsar | det |
| 41 | Tsar | Tsar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 put | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 put | aux |
| 44 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 gone | conj |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 daughter | amod |
| 47 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 barrel | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 barrel | det |
| 50 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 put | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 sent | cc |
| 52 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 put | conj |
| 53 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 sent | obj |
| 54 | out | out | ADP | _ | 52 sent | compound:prt |
| 55 | into | into | ADP | _ | 57 sea | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 sea | det |
| 57 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 sent | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past · passive | hunters | all cities | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to city=Destination | |||
| 2 | not go | past · perfect | all neighbouring parts | year | before property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come together | past | all Tsars and Tsarévichi and all Kings and Korolévichi | all neighbouring parts not said here | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | |||
| 4 | put | past · perfect | Korolévichi's own daughter | the barrel | as the Tsar; who nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Goal | |||
| 5 | send out | past | daughter | the sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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